I was mailed 2 sample JumpBacks from Digital Juice. They look really nice. They're on the CD as avi files. I however did not have to resize them at all.

You can get them at B&H for $149, which is $100 less than Digital Juice selling them direct.

Dirk

I have a large collection of Digital Juice products. In late night sessions they have saved my rump many times. The Editors tool kit has a nice collection of items that can really help when you just need to grab a look and go.

K

K,

What has it cost you to date for a reasonable number of DJ CD's? (approximately)

John

I have about $1000 tied up in Digital Juice products. It has saved me 4 times that in the cost of graphics development time and music.

Right now there are a couple of deals that you might want to look at. The Juice pak is a bunch of static backdrops and photos that are very good for $40. The animations are low res so ignore that in the pak. The Editor's Tool Kit LE at $99 has a nice variety (50) coordinated sets of graphics (non-animated) as well as lower thirds and the like. For the price, if you can't afford the Editor's Tool Kit full version then those two products give you a nice variety of tools.

I will probably pick up the Juice Pak just because there are a few drops that I do not have and the remixes on it will save me time.

<---- is not affiliated with Digital Juice in anyway and was not compensated for this blaintant promotion of their product. Although if they would like to give him a free Jump Back set he would not complain <g> Smiles all

K

K,
Thanks for the feedback, I think I will do that.
John

I went ahead today and bought the Juice Pak eventhough I have all of the backgrounds and drops and photos in the Pak contained in my other materials. The difference is that they also provided remixes which are the drops with some masks applied to make them look like a set. Essentially there are a few hundred graphic sets for corporate backgrounds and presentations. Yes I could do that with a few keystokes myself, but for $40 they have done it for me and that will save me more than $40 in labor over the next month.

k

Where do you get the Juice Pak for $40?

Tom

I use Digital Juice Volumes 1 -7 (except the wedding one) with our AVID Media Composer and the VV3 stations; never had a peck of trouble with resizing.

Peter

www.digitaljuice.com It is a close out product featured on their front page.

Cool. I'll check it out.

Tom

KKolbo; those animations are only 320X240. Dont they look a little cheesy at that resolution ?

I would think they would look OK when viewed on a TV.

>>those animations are only 320X240. Dont they look a little cheesy at that >>resolution ?

I consider them of no value other than I can use them as moving texture under something else. The $40 is a reasonable price for the static graphics that the Pak includes. I just ignor the animations.

Tserface was asking or talking about how to animate the static stuff. If you guys want I can post an example.

K

Sure. That would be good.

Tom

Just ordered it myself. Can't really go wrong with that price, and that will really help dress up my videos.
dave

>>asking or talking about how to animate the static stuff. If you guys want I can >>post an example.

I have sent an example of just dressing up a static plate to the Chienworks server. It is at www.vegasusers.com/vidshare . The clip is called plate.wmv.

It is just a static plate from the Juice Pak. I put a second copy on the track above it. I made that one B&W and then increased the contrast a lot. I then made the other copy of the still a child for compositing using a lumenince mask setting. That gave me a mild transpency in the dark blue section. I then took another still from my old stock and moved it around with track motion behind it.

The end result is a light motion in the dark blue areas.

I just threw this together to illustrate the point. I don't know if I particularly like this plate but you will get the point.

K

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